598 A SMALL COLLECTION OF BEES FROM TASMANIA, 



they are sparse; vertex sparsely punctured; mesothorax shining, 

 with scattered punctures, liardly any in middle; parapsidal ,i,'rooves 

 very distinct; area of metathorax dullish, with slight oblique 

 strise; niesopleura with sparse punctures, very shiny and prac- 

 tically impunctate posteriorly; tegulpe piceous; wings hyaline, a 

 little brownish in the region of the cells; basal nervure meeting 

 transverso-medial, a little to the outer side; first recurrent nervui-e 

 joining second submarginal cell about the end of its first third; 

 second recurrent joining third submarginal about as far from end 

 as first recurrent from base of second submarginal; stigma piceous, 

 nervures dark fuscous; legs with hairs mostly pale, ferruginous 

 on inner side of anterior tibise and tarsi, mainly fuscous on middle 

 tibiae and tarsi; long and white on hind femora, creamy-white on 

 inner and posterior side of hind tibise, but purplish-brown and 

 very strongly plumose behind, pale on inner side of hind basitarsi, 

 but fuscous on anterior edge; abdomen sparsely and feebly punc- 

 tured, scantily pubescent, without hair-bands; second and third 

 segments with extremely narrow testaceous hind margins; apical 

 hair dark fuscous. Hind spur with long oblique teeth. 



A male from King Island(136, G457) is provisionally referred 

 here, though it may represent a very closely allied but tlistinct 

 species. It has exactly the same form and appeaiance as the 

 female, but differs as follows : face much narrower, eyes pro- 

 minent; face covered with long fulvous hair, but black at sides 

 above; vertex, mesothorax and scutellum with black or dark 

 fuscous hair, but fulvous about tubercles; first recurrent nervure 

 joining second submarginal cell nearer base; first two abdominal 

 segments with much long light hair. 



In my Table, in Trans. American Entom. Society, September, 

 1905, this runs nearest to P. versicolor(Hm.), which it resembles in 

 the relatively narrow abdomen of the female, differing, however, 

 by the ridged clypeus, and the very dark smooth (not silky) 

 abdomen. In my Table, in Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History, January, 19U6, it runs to the vicinity of /'. spatulaius, a 

 considerably smaller, broader species, with various differences. 

 There is a good deal of resemblance to several other species, but 

 it is impossible to identify it with any of them. 



